Subject: Re: 1.6.1 lack of stability on cats
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
List: port-arm
Date: 02/13/2003 09:43:48
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 09:49:28PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 11:10:14AM +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > > > I haven't submitted a request to releng yet.  Ignatios, is there any 
> > > > chance that you could try this on your shark and see if it solves the 
> > > > problems you reported?
> > > 
> > > All else being the 1.6 branch? (Kernel is cross-building right now)
> > > 
> > 
> > Yeah, there's no need to back this out from the trunk, there's no 
> > instability there.
> 
> Ok. Reverting the aforementioned patches, I've built a kernel that was
> able to build xpdf without locking up. I'm building tuxpaint and its 
> horrible mess of stupid dependencies now as a 2nd test, and only had
> one of the occasional l1ptwaits, which are unrelated.
> 
> It does not fix the "buildint teTeX" problem. I'll have to analyze this 
> further.

I managed to build teTeX without problems last night, but when I ran xdvi 
this morning on a sample I had lying aroung it crashed repeatably.

A repeatable crash sounds like a different bug however, so I'll look into 
that one further tonight.

R.